Boy Girl

I got a bird’s-eye view of some “fanciful figures,” as Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte describes them, that were surrounded by scaffolding and plywood. Many hundreds of feet straight up, where only pigeons can sit, are these huge man- and woman-like sculptures carefully placed – boy, girl, boy, girl – just like any modern-day dinner party.

Even back in 1915 when Bernard Maybeck designed the famous San

Francisco landmark, he was very careful not to get any flak about the seating arrangements.